The second half of 2025 saw a worrying rise in the frequency and severity of marine fuel quality challenges, reports Samantha Andrews

An application to mine the seabed in New Zealand’s South Taranaki Bight was withdrawn earlier this year. John Bensalhia reports on developments

Built as the first purpose-designed Antarctic research ship, RRS Discovery is again helping push the frontiers of science – this time from a drydock in Dundee. John Monasta, associate director of maritime engineering consultancy Beckett Rankine, tells John Bensalhia about the restoration of a ship that once carried Scott and Shackleton